The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-07-20
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" VIII De observed that Hubbell was GRE
ating fand for future emergencies. and
it was this urgency that transformed b.
con, the passnt Office clerk, into a thief.
He stole for the party. He robbed at the
bidding of Husbell, and the contemplated
investigation will make, it is believed,
further disclosures, showing to what ex-
tent money was stolen from tS76 to 1884 to
secure the election of Republican Con-
gress and administration. To have sorae
rational idea of Republican piracy, the
following from the North American Re-
view for September, 1882, will be read with
interest: ---s
Gould the curtain of secrecy be lifted,
we should see vast drag net OF extorticn
thrown out by the committee from Wash
ington over the whole land, from Maine to
California, with every humble official and
laborer from those under the sea at He'll
Gate to the weather observers on Pixies
Peak, entangled in its meshes. and busy
among them for their prey series of tax
,extoTtioners ranging down from Hubbell,
.oS 6ie.is qsieS -, ~. lttIio nuo-~..
the hundred, each paid commission on
his collections in trus Turkish fashiop
These nlniOns, book in hand, ara hauIr-
ipg he official corridors and tracking n
public laborers. They mouse around the
bureaus for names and salaries, waicb
all high toned officials contempsu lusl,
withhold. Neither age, sex nor condition
IS spared by these spells systems harD;.,
They Taylay the clerks going to thsii
me6ls. They hunt the Soringf-ld
rsepsl and the Mississippi break r ate.
laborers to their humble homes. They
obtrude their impertinent faces upon the
teachers OF Indians and negroes at Hsmp-
den school and the Carlisle barracks. They
dog navy-yard workmeni to their narrow
lodgings.
1.-THE weary scrub-women are persecuted
to their garrets. The poor Office boys are
bullied at their evening school; the money
needed for rent is taken from the aged faith
er and only son; men enfeebled on the bat
tlefields are harried in the very shadow of
the capitol; hfeboat crews listening on
stormy shores for the cry of the shipwreck-
ed, and eTen chaplains and nurses at the
bedside of the dying are not exempted
from the merciless, mercenary, indecent
CONSUMPTION which reproduces the .infamy
OF Oriental tax farming. We know of the
head of family who hesitates between de-
flying Hubbell and taking g meaner teae-
M Mt; of BOY at evening school black
mailed of three dollars while wearing a
suit given in charity, and of son pillaged
of $17 when the furniture of a mother he
supports was In pawn. Pages could be fill
ed with such cases. A newspaper before
Us gives that of a laborer with q family
earning $3.50 a year pursued by harpy for
SIS, and also that of boy of thirteen earn
ing 81 day with another harpy af-
ter him for s. 60. To women and girls no
mercy is shown"
With such facts before them, the people
will readily comprehend why the Repub-
lican partywas exiled from power. It had
forfeited the respect of the country. 1t was
corrupt to the core. Its methods were
criminal and could be no longer tolerated.
The Republican party has not changed its
policy. 1t no longer ro5s the. people, SIM
ply because it is not in power; and honest
Republicans fearlessly.assent that the stan
dard bearersof the party-Blaine and Sher-
man-represent all that is,vIle in Republic
caniim. Those are dangerous men, and
that they will not vote for either OF them.
But it matters little who the Republicans
nominate. The people object to Republi-
canism. II is dishonesty. 1t corrupts, de-
bases; has finished its mission and must
disappear.